Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...system of demerits is being established for the officer candidates, in addition to the regular punishments meted out for the various prescribed offenses. Men will be allowed different numbers of demerits per term, depending upon their academic status...
Beer and singing are the mainstays of the German Club, or Verein Turmwaechter, which whoops and hollers its joy from the Lowell House Tower Room at regular intervals. Practically unaffected by the war, the club is entirely disconnected from the Germany of today...
Besides its regular meetings, the club conducts picnics in the summer and dances in the winter and spring. The feature of the year is the Maifest, a short play followed by dinner and a dance, which was attended this spring by 80 members and their guests...
During these years, many regular Army officers went softly to seed. A few-a very few-burned themselves out and annoyed their colleagues with pioneering studies in tactics and a rude espousal of modern forms of war. (Two examples: the late Billy Mitchell of the Air Corps; the late Adna Chaffee of the armored force.) Many cavalrymen, sensing the end of their service, went into the embryo tank service...
When Terry Allen was growing up, the cavalry and the horse artillery were the elite services of the Regular Army. Saddle-hardened before he was ten, never doubting for a moment that he was in and of the Army, Terry proceeded naturally from horseback and post life to West Point and (as he assumed) a commission in the cavalry. Most of the boys who entered with him (in 1907) were frightened strangers to the Point and to the Army, prepared to slave and die to stay in both. Allen knew West Point as well as he knew the Army...